Norman Field was subject to a transfer bid from Huddersfield in early-1964, but they were unwilling to meet Batley's valuation of £6,000 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £210,200 in 2013),[3] and he subsequently retired from rugby league in 1964 aged-28 to concentrate on his business interests.[4]

Norman Field ran a motorcycle business on Bradford Road, Batley throughout his rugby days, in the early 1980s he and his wife Susan moved to Torquay to run hotel, which they converted into flats in the mid-2000s.[5]